Countries
Andora, Argentina, Aruba, Australia, Belize, Bolivia, Brazil, Canada, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Equatorial Guinea, France, Gibraltar, Guatemala, Honduras, Jamaica, Latvia, Luxembourg, Mexico, Morocco, Namibia, Netherlands Antilles, New Zealand, Nicaragua, Norway, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Philippines, Puerto Rico, Russia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Trinidad and Tobago, Turkey, United Kingdom, United States of America, Uruguay, Venezuela, Western Sahara
  
Benin, Nigeria
  
National Language
Spain
  
Nigeria
  
Second Language
Andora, Aruba, Australia, Austria, Belgium, Belize, Brazil, Bulgaria, Canada, Denmark, France, Germany, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Jamaica, Luxembourg, Morocco, Netherlands, Netherlands Antilles, New Zealand, Philippines, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russia, Slovenia, Switzerland, Trinidad and Tobago, Turkey, United Kingdom, United States of America, US Virgin Islands
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Speaking Continents
Africa, Asia, Europe, North America, South America
  
Africa
  
Minority Language
Brazil, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Morocco, United Kingdom
  
Africa, Brazil, Togo, United Kingdom, United States of America
  
Regulated By
Asociación de Academias de la Lengua Española
  
Yoruba Academy
  
Interesting Facts
- One of the world's most phonetic language is Spanish.
- Up to the 18th century, Spanish was diplomatic language.
  
- One of the largest African ethnic groups is Yoruba in south of Sahara Desert.
- In Yoruba language, same combination of vowels and consonants have different meanings depending on the pitch of the vowels, so it is tonal language.
  
Similar To
French Language
  
Owo and Itsekiri languages
  
Derived From
Latin
  
Not Available
  
Alphabets in
Spanish-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Yoruba-Alphabet.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Latin
  
Latin
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Not Available
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
hola
  
Ẹ n lẹ
  
Thank You
Gracias
  
e dupe
  
How Are You?
Cómo estás?
  
Bawo ni o se wa
  
Good Night
Buenas Noches
  
Kasun layọ o
  
Good Evening
Bonne soirée
  
ka a ale
  
Good Afternoon
Buenas Tardes
  
e kaasan
  
Good Morning
Buenos Días
  
e kaaro
  
Please
Por Favor
  
Jowo
  
Sorry
triste
  
binu
  
Bye
adiós
  
bye
  
I Love You
Te Quiero
  
mo nifẹ rẹ
  
Excuse Me
Discúlpeme
  
mo tọrọ gafara
  
Dialect 1
Mexican Spanish
  
Itsekiri
  
Where They Speak
Mexico
  
Nigeria
  
How Many People Speak
105,000,000.00
  
5
Dialect 2
Cuban Spanish
  
Ede
  
Where They Speak
Cuba
  
Benin, Togo
  
How Many People Speak
11,000,000.00
  
8
Dialect 3
Puerto Rican Spanish
  
Ulukwumi
  
Where They Speak
Puerto Rico
  
Nigeria
  
How Many People Speak
3,900,000.00
  
9
How Many People Speak?
489.00 million
  
3
30.00 million
  
36
Native Speakers
410.00 million
  
2
28.00 million
  
29
Second Language Speakers
89.50 million
  
9
Not Available
  
Native Name
Español
  
Yorùbá
  
Alternative Names
Castellano, Castilian, Español
  
Yariba, Yooba
  
French Name
espagnol; castillan
  
yoruba
  
German Name
Spanisch
  
Yoruba-Sprache
  
Pronunciation
[espaˈɲol], [kasteˈʎano]
  
Not Available
  
Ethnicity
Not Available
  
Yoruba people
  
Origin
210 BC
  
4 BC
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family
  
Niger-Congo Family
  
Subgroup
Romance
  
Western Sudanic
  
Branch
Not Available
  
Kwa
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Old Spanish and Spanish
  
No early forms
  
Standard Forms
Pluricentric Standard Spanish
  
Yorùbá
  
Signed Forms
Signed Spanish
  
Yoruba Sign Language
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
es
  
yo
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
spa
  
yor
  
ISO 639 2/B
spa
  
yor
  
ISO 639 3
spa
  
yor
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
stan1288
  
yoru1245
  
Linguasphere
51-AAA-b
  
No data available
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
  
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic
  
Analytic, Isolating